404

This article is about the year 404. For the number, see 404 (number). For the error code, see HTTP 404. For other uses, see 404 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century – 5th century – 6th century
Decades:	370s  380s  390s  – 400s –  410s  420s  430s
Years:	401 402 403 – 404 – 405 406 407

404 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

404 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	404 CDIV
Ab urbe condita	1157
Assyrian calendar	5154
Bengali calendar	−189
Berber calendar	1354
Buddhist calendar	948
Burmese calendar	−234
Byzantine calendar	5912–5913
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3100 or 3040     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3101 or 3041
Coptic calendar	120–121
Discordian calendar	1570
Ethiopian calendar	396–397
Hebrew calendar	4164–4165
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	460–461
- Shaka Samvat	326–327
- Kali Yuga	3505–3506
Holocene calendar	10404
Iranian calendar	218 BP – 217 BP
Islamic calendar	225 BH – 224 BH
Julian calendar	404 CDIV
Korean calendar	2737
Minguo calendar	1508 before ROC 民前1508年
Seleucid era	715/716 AG
Thai solar calendar	946–947

John Chrysostom confronting Empress Eudoxia, by Jean-Paul Laurens

Year 404 (CDIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Honorius and Aristaenetus (or, less frequently, year 1157 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 404 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• January 1 – Last known gladiator fight in Rome. This date is usually given as the date of the martyrdom of Saint Telemachus, a Christian monk who was stoned by the crowd for trying to stop a gladiators' fight in a Roman amphitheatre.
• The dome in Ravenna is built by the entire population of the city.
• October 6 – Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy who ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection short after.

Asia

• Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo (Korea) attacks Liaodong and takes the entire Liaodong Peninsula.
• The Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan, who founded the Pure Land Buddhism sect and the monastery on Mount Lushan, writes the book On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings in this year. In his book he argues that although the Buddhist clergy should remain independent and undisturbed by politics, the Buddhist laymen nonetheless make good subjects under monarchs, due to their fear of retribution of karma and desire to be reborn in paradise.

By topic

Religion

• Eudoxia exiles John Chrysostom, bishop of Constantinople, for criticizing her sumptuous lifestyle. He is banished to the Caucasus in Armenia. Pope Innocent I at Rome orders a synod to reinstate the bishop, but his envoys are imprisoned. Atticus becomes the new bishop of Constantinople.

Deaths

• October 6 – Aelia Eudoxia, Roman Empress and wife of Arcadius
• Claudian, Roman poet (approximate date)
• Flavian I, Patriarch of Antioch
• He Fani, empress of the Jin dynasty (b. 339)
• Huan Xuan, warlord and emperor of the Jin dynasty (b. 369)
• Paula, Desert Mother and saint (b. 347)
• January 1 – Telemachus, Christian monk and martyr